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Poster:	HappySwordsman	Date:	Oct 11, 2014 7:26pm
Forum:	television	Subject:	Australian TV plays 1957-1964

I've previously posted a link to the 1959 list.

The following is a series of lists of "TV plays" aired on Australian TV from the years 1957 to 1964.

1957 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359077/

1958 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359406/

1959 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077358429/

1960 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058930980/

1961 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077000599/

1962 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077264166/

1963 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077244792/

1964 list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077463335/

As you can see, most of these are:
1. Adaptations of stage plays (such as "Rope")
2. Remakes of BBC one-offs (such as "Ending It")
3. Remakes of ITV anthology episodes (such as "A Night Out")
4. Remakes of US anthology episodes (such as "Tragedy in a Temporary Town")

Some are locally written, but not many. But given that there was virtually no Australian film industry at all during the 1950s/early 1960s (the industry had imploded in the early 1940s, so television isn't to blame), a few locally written TV plays was nevertheless a big step and a big deal.

Most of these aired on non-commercial ABC. Starting in 1959, commercial TV began offering the occasional local TV play, but not in the same quantity as ABC.

I wonder how many of these exist as kinescope recordings or early video-tape.

This post was modified by The_Emperor_Of_Television on 2014-10-12 02:26:21